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Who is NWSAG? |
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Mission Statement/Vision
Promote and increase the awareness of the Art of Wood Sculpting and provide
a new venue for Artists to sell their quality products.
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Organization's Structure
The NWSAG is comprised of two Divisions. The first division the "Art Gallery"
which is non-profit and the second division is the "Gift Store" which mainly caters
to the OWC members.
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Art Gallery's Goals
The "Art Gallery" has for goal to expose the public to the many forms of wood
art including a chance to view collector's item and more specifically promote
wood carving and wood burning (Pyrography) by displaying award winning
Sculptures. The "Art Gallery" is non-profit. It is funded by the ‘Gallery Store’
and "Donations" from the public.
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Gift Store's Goals
The "Gallery Store" provides an Internet venue for Artist to sell some of their
quality award winning art and it is used to fund the "Art Gallery".
The concept of sharing information is carried through in the "Gift Store" by
including a Carver's Corner which provides snippets of information gathered
through the many reading and submissions. When ever possible the authors of
these tips are identified.
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How I came to dream up the Conception of NWSAG
My name is Anita Baillargeon and I am an active member of the Canadian Ottawa Wood Carver’s (OWC) club.
At the end of the 2005-2006 the OWC carving season I meet a fellow member who expressed the need to have
a web site to sell her merchandise. During the summer an acquaintance was telling me on how his web site was
not producing sales. Needless to say the day that a free invitation to attend a seminar on ‘marketing on the Internet’
came I jumped at the idea in the hope of learning and may be help. The invitation said ‘and guest’ so Brian
Graham my pyrography teacher came with me.
The seminar was a preamble for the next $20.00 seminar for which I signed up always with the same objective to help. However, it was specified that there will be
a one-on-one consultation to make sure that you buy their web solution no doubt. This is where the idea came to create a fictitious Web Store company and sell
widgets to make my learning experience more complete. That’s when I came to realize that the OWC club members have magnificent carving pieces stashed in
their homes and limited venues to sell their masterpieces. So I decided to create EXOTIC WOOD ART.
Bryan was not able to attend the Internet Marketing Seminar with me. It was an intense, fact finding full day of pressure salesmanship and I came out
energized. After that I changed the company name several times, built a paper prototype and presented it to the east-end OWC Clutch in January for
comments. And comment they did. It was very rich in information and food for thought. What became evident from Kathie Potvin’s, of Woody’s Carving Supplies,
comments was that the 1st priority was to inform\sensitize on the art of appreciating Wood Art.
And the National Wood Sculpture Art Gallery (NWSAG) was born |
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